Counterfactual Research

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 3 10:48:39 CST 2002


And from a link on the Uchronia web site I found the following:

http://www.sfu.ca/counterfactual/

How might your life have unfolded differently? What if your parents never met?
Perhaps you should have studied harder in school, or asked out so-and-so when
you had the chance. Such thoughts of what might have been seem to be a common
part of everyday thought processes, sometimes irresistibly drawing our
attention. 

Reflections on what might have been are termed counterfactual thoughts, and
psychologists are increasingly interested in the determinants of these
thoughts, and also the effects of these thoughts on emotions, inferences,
decisions, and behavior.

This site is intended to be a resource for students and researchers who have an
interest in counterfactual thinking and related research conducted by social
psychologists. Contained here are listings of in press and recently published
articles, a (complete?) bibliography of counterfactual publications in social
psychology, and also web links to the home pages of psychologists active in
this area (hypertext links to home pages are associated with authors' last
names). 



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